kazuya

I wonder how this affected Toshiba's own processors -- MeP, then Cell. Some of MPEs (Nuon's processing units) only had access to its small local memory and needed DMA to access the main memory. This is kind of similar to Cell's SPEs. Each SPE has only 256 KB of directly accessible memory and required DMA to get to the main memory. You can say it's not uncommon in DSPs, but it's still interesting Toshiba has been involved with these.

It's not only in US. We've had the phrase 'three highs' (三高) in Japan, about height, income, and education, though people openly express this are getting downplayed these days. Not sure how it matters in the dating market.

Strange, no mention about excretions. The author did blood tests but no urine tests.

Where's the obligatory xkcd reference, anyone?

Or try think this way - your doorstep is part of Amazon's storefront. Even though you have to make a deposite and wait much longer than real retails before perusing the goods at hand, you think they have great customer service. Genuinely interesting, with no sarcasm.

Surprisingly, most of the descriptions apply also to Japan. Except you need to replace forks with chopsticks, cowboys with ninjas.

Hmm I've just pre-ordered two from Japan (and applied to the dev program too). I believe the form included international locations, can you confirm it?

Your low level is my high level.

Even assembly code appears high level when you are looking into how the electrons run through silicon and copper. But it's not realistic to cover all the stack down to the atoms. Then which layer you can stop digging at?

For a programmer, the processor architecture (including the instruction set architecture and the bus architecture) level would be fine. It is the strongest abstraction barrier and you rarely need to look below it.

That said, if you are working on embedded systems, knowledge about digital electronics is almost a must, and some analog bits really helps.